Each palm-size owl caught is a rush, not only because it is an encounter in the dark with pure wildness. Saw-whets are one of ...

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State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

An ambitious person could hike from Monte Rio all the way to the ocean. Justin Whittaker / The Coldwater Collective, courtesy of Save the Redwoods League Through a densely forested slope on the west ...

In 2013, biologists began to notice that sea stars—more than 20 species of them, eventually—along North America’s Pacific coast were suffering from an illness that caused them to disintegrate.

Arboreal salamander (Aneides lugubris). Jeremiah Degenhardt via iNaturalist, CC BY-NC 4.0 One day, while poking around beneath a pot in my family’s backyard, I discovered a glistening arboreal ...

Every winter, tens of thousands of newts cross Chileno Valley Road to breed in Laguna Lake, west of Petaluma—a perilous journey that leaves up to 40 percent of them roadkill. But since 2019, ...

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